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The following is a presentation of Playfly
Sports Properties in Michigan State Sports Properties.

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Happy Tuesday evening, every one.
It is Tuesday, April eleventh, twenty

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twenty three. I'm your host,
Jason Straighthorn along with my co host Otis

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Well, a special welcome back,
ohis after your trip down to the

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Land, the Happiest place on Earth, Disney welcome. I wasn't thank you.

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It was great man. You know, it was a place magical.

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You know, you you you admire
a guy who Walt Disney, who built

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something that stands the test of time. It does no matter what year.

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Fami PE's everybody like it's it's a
full out, you know, everybody's coming

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from here far globally. There was
a lot of a lot of Canadians.

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Actually, I brought it j u
up I was. I was in line

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with the guy who was like,
yeah, you know, you know we're

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from Canada. And I said,
oh yeah, I got a teammate who

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claims he's a Canadian. It was
like Canada spreaing Brank, Ohio spring break

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and we met a couple of Michiganners
just so you know you were there and

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it was last week. But in
Canada a spring break, they say March

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break, March break. Okay,
yeah, but you're there in April.

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But Mark's break, Yeah, gotcha, gotcha Canadians out there. I mean

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we got to verify, shoot you
correct. I don't know, I don't

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know who we have. You know, you know he's spot on all the

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time, right and you know,
like speaking of like welcome backs. Guys.

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We got a couple of welcome backs, and that that's gonna start off

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with Tyson Walker is back in the
green and white for men's basketball. Man.

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I saw a tweet from one of
I think it's Angel mccordy women's basketball

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pro uh, and she was stating
that the college athletes and n I L

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is so so wealthy, like it's
so healthy now that kids are like,

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look, I'm making more here than
I will, you know if I go

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to the professional ranks. But I
think we got some n finished business.

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And I think we look at Tyson
and you look at you know, our

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other announcement. I think it was
great. It's great to come back.

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And then we got some guys coming. We talked about the Germany fears of

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the world coming in and you got
still Trey Holloman, you got Tyson Walker,

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Angel Holgert. I mean it's gonna
be nice. Man. I think

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we got some we got someone finished
business, which say the next but the

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Malague Hall is also coming back to
the man. Hey, the heart the

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heart of this the this is the
grit, this is the heart of our

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team right here. Well, we
need him back, but I know it

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is a smaller ear to ear with
that recruited class coming in too tootely.

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You know, I think you know
this is something good. Is it took

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a lot of flak for not going
in the transfer portal last year and getting

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up big or getting somebody. You
know, he wants to do things the

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organic way, and I think,
you know, them having a taste and

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having that little run you know that
the Spartans had this year in the NCAA

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tournament. There really you know,
brings things together and brings that hunger you

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know, to each other. And
I think Tyson Walker was just peeking at

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the right time late season, uh
tournament time. He's just started to form

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and get himself and then that team
was starting to get that chemistry. And

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now I'm really excited about it.
Is because these guys that are coming back

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for another year, there's a purpose
behind them returning for another year, and

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that's that hunger because they tasted it
a little bit, they tasted what it

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could have been, and now they're
gonna have the pieces to get it together.

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They're gonna have an entire off season, you know, to get to

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have that social cohesiveness and become that
one unit that they can just play fast.

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And you know, I'm really excited
about this and if you're a Spartan

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hoops fan you should be as well, no question about it. I mean,

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this is gonna be exciting guys.
And you know they always talk about

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guard play season. Guard play gets
you deep into that tournament in man whole

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guard Walker who young guns, Leek
Hall provides some grit. We got some

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big fellas. Now, hey,
this is so co and you know baby

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Jack's gonna be in the weight room
that he gets he gets to lift wings

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in college for a whole year.
It's transformation. We see the transformation that

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uh you know, we talked.
We were talking about which who had the

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biggest transformation in college basketball for Michigan
State biggest body transformation. People were saying,

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Draymond you had Xavier till Man,
But like I thought, it was

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like Derek Knicks or Nick Ward.
But who do you think has the biggest

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body transformation in Michigan State's basketball history? Derek Knicks. Yeah, that was

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a that's a big fella right there. Yeah, I have to go Draymond

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Man. He was he was that
guy that was just you know, loose,

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lumpy, and then he called dray
Bun's was like post Michigan's He's seen

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year, He's seen year. Yeah, because he was like a little bit

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like that's why big jerseys though,
right right, big jerseys, big shorts

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think of the past. Huh yeah, the Fab five ere you know,

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we're old people now, right.
I get it. I don't want to

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bring up that team down the road
though, But they don't have any banners

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do They landed a big time dude
man like Caleb, Like Caleb Love is

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a big time dude. I don't
know what. I don't know what you're

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talking about. Moving We're going.
Yes, here's the spartan academic gala oldis.

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You were at this? Yeah,
oh look money, I was like

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that, Okay, it's yeah man, this is a this is you gotta

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know what, Kim like, this
is our Yeah, look, I haven't

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seen I was sitting there, I
was at I was sitting at the table

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with Elliott Daniel's doctor gas and uh, I was like, I haven't seen

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this. Miss this much representation for
football at the gala. No, not

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to like obviously past, but we
were very well represented, like almost the

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entire I felt like the whole team
was there getting academic honors and that shows

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the culture of our our team,
but also like our program that you know,

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academics just does matter. And this
is like that gala to honor you

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know, the top of the line, the best student athletes that are truly

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uh you know, achieving in the
academia world. But it was a beautiful

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event Breslan. You know, it's
crazy how you could transform Breslan into a

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venue like that. It's like a
black tie. But it was really good

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to see a lot of people try
to turn out and show up for the

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student athletes because it's it's way,
way, way more beneficial when you celebrate

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them off the field than on.
So it was a good, good event.

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Yeah, great point o, you
know, celebrating them off the field

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than on the field, because a
lot of the things, you know,

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people see athletes run around and see
them as a number on the football field,

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on the basketball court, on the
on the golf course, tennis course,

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at whatever sport that they play.
But this is the opportunity to know

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that they're big, they're more than
an athlete. You know, there's some

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brains and that that's why there's that
student in that student athlete as well,

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and Uh, so, you know, congratulations to all the guys, especially

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the guys from the football team that
are representing their congratulations with Peyton Thorne in

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that fire red suit there. That
was a great suit he had on there.

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That was great and it was like
it was red of it for sure,

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that was a red vela. But
we gotta we gotta give that old

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speaker all American girl, Jenny Taff
you know, the keynote speaker, have

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a good message. O. She
she had a great message, man,

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And I didn't want to be that
person recording when it was like everybody was

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tuned in. But her story of
being a walk on at from at Boston

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University, she played lacrosse and she
had a good story stating that you know,

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she actually walked on. Uh,
she actually was cut and when she

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got an email received from the coach, she said that she responded with,

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Hey, you know, can I
just you know, show up and you

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know, workout for a month,
give me a shot. And she made

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the team based off of basically,
no one has responded to this coach when

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they get cut, and based off
of that response, she made the team.

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And you know, she talked about
shout out to all the walk on.

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Really only a few in the stands
was like, yeah, I walk

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on. But it was a good
story about persevering, sticking to uh to

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what you want and love and doing
what you love. And you know,

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she she had to go the hardcore
route of beginning to become broadcasting. You

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know, we got one of our
own j u uh going to do some

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big things in the broadcast world.
I was, was I here or did

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I missis show where we celebrated that
at all? Straight? We didn't talk

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about it. I mean tell us
to to I mean before we get to

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our guest, because this is why
everybody's here tonight to hear from our guests,

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but our very own TOUCHU is uh
climbing up the ladder on I'm following

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the footstep up straight there the channel
on my inner color analysts. I will

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be the color analyst for the Michigan
Panthers USFL team. Yes, yes,

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what we are. Who wasn't picking
the draft for by the way, Yes,

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and we have we have dogs on
the team there. I know Butler,

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you know, he's aid dB,
you know, on the on the

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squad there, so you know the
dogs. Yeah, hey, we got

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so is it constant inventors. If
you get some b roll and some content

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for this is sparta. We got
to see what it's like behind the scenes.

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Yeah, we're all in this.
Yeah. So you know, like,

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guys, we have this special game
coming up, you know, this

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weekend. But then while we have
the game, it's football players, there's

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also a couple of other events going
on. It's gonna be a baseball game.

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And while we're at it, let's
talk about Jake Boss, who just

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celebrated is four hundredth wins as Mischigan
State head coaching. Yeah. Then I

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was talking to him yesterday at the
event. One. I like our I

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like our baseball unis. I need
to get me one man, especially the

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Vinton's ones and the cap baseball cap. But they're rolling right now. Say,

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I think you look better in it
than Jake coach, Jake Skinny,

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I can't get right skips wear the
baseball uniform in baseball, like like why

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there's the only sport they do that. Yeah, you know, but you

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know, I think from a stamp
we were talking about the weather, where

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like we were talking about they have
a different beast that they have to handle

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throughout the season, especially Michigan in
the season of spring and a lot of

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rain, especially with you know April
rain, April showers bring May flowers.

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But they have to like work with
our Lancey lucking as minor leagues because they

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were rained out, and so he
said, sometimes, man, when it

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rains, he's like, I just
kind of wish that, you know,

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we had a better location in the
stadium. But you know they're rolling right

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now, chemistry, beating no House
state and looking for some big things turn

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the program around. Rains part of
the game. You know, worst stadium

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for rainouts in the major leagues is
Miami. So look it's gonna happen.

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That's what it is, you know. So we're in Michigan, you know,

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got to deal with the climate every
now and then. But guys,

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you know what we got coming up, which is big, is the This

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is Sparta special subscribers only event that's
going down at field House right after the

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Spring Game, five pm. Don't
be late, guys, It's gonna be

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a fun event. You got some
guys that's gonna be coming fresh off the

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Spring game, going to be making
appearances there. It will be fun to

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get the This Isparted crew together,
the This Is Part of Family you know,

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have them come together meet each other, you know, have some he

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he ha haas and uh livations responsibly
put that back up. Who's gonna be

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there? Oh, let's talk about
the people that's gonna be there. Jacobe

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Whitteman, Yeah, boy number four. And then Cayle Holliday the Chemist,

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call him the alchemist because he walked
the stage and it was like chemistry and

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he was just just a elito dude
middle linebacker. And Keon Coman Leon ke

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On, which she said, you
didn't really like, so we go ke

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Coman, uh will be there and
then all of our we got you a

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seat. Subscribers. Yeah, yeah, I heard. I heard the open

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tab though on jo. Yeah,
that's what we heard. Look last time

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we said, what's on Steve,
Well, you know now with your updated

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I don't know, you know,
Mama Hall's coming. I just saw that.

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Mama Hall you coming, you know, you know, provide uh libations

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for all parents that do a ten. That's what I heard. That's what

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I heard. So the way the
way my big accounts sit up, you're

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speaking of speaking of this, you
know, we we we're talking about like

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the body transformation. Let's look at
Draymond between high school and the Michigan State.

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Absolutely, absolutely, he was on
the custo of changing that there was

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no more so definition on the left
man look at he had a tattoo on

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the left to kind of maybe do
the cut. I don't know, but

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he was, you know, he
got in shape more so game shape,

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game ready where he was able to
run up and down the floor fully.

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But he admitted that when he got
here he was overweight, out of shape.

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And the transformation at Tom and then
Dwayne Stevens did a good job of

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committing himself to help and train him
too, And I think that's what we

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kind of lacked liked this past season. Is a big guy and coach Stevens

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he had a big influence on our
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that this season I were good.
But Draymond man, I think he jokes

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on himself about that transformation too,
So I know how I'm like, did

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he stop eating when he got the
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about the biggest transformation? Why are
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I wasn't a player, and all
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guy that had my hand I always
had my Hey, hey, you guys,

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you guys, I gotta get this
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guys are going off off rails.
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than Peyton Thorn, quarterback QB one, number ten in your heart, number

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one. Look here he is.
Peyon Thorn joins the show. Thank you

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for joining the show. Here,
this is Sparta Peyton. How you doing,

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Bud, I'm doing good. Thank
you guys for having me be fun

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Chopping up for a little with you
guys, without question. Man, First

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off, Haye, let me let
me let me say every time like you're

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you're with you're with you're with dogs
here, you're with Spartan dogs here all

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right. Let every time I see
you doing you like so professionally. You're

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such a quarterback with professional and everything
like that. Cut loose, let loose,

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let's he he ha ha and go
with it doing me well. Appreciate

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you coming, no, man,
appreciate you. We know you're busy and

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everything like that, and you know
the spring balls going on right now,

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but taking the time to come on
the show. Really appreciate it absolutely Again,

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thanks for having me. I'm excited
to uh to get rolling. Yeah.

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Man, So Peyton, how spring
going? Man? Right now?

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Talk to us about what you're what
you're seeing in the spring. I mean

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people kind of know you already since
you've been a two year start of this

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can say it's not like we're unfamiliar
with you, you know. So you

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know, I know you had your
days back in Illinois. Everybody knows you

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had that great relationship with with Jayden
Reed. Talk about how this spring has

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been with the quarterbacks that you have
in a lot in that room right now

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in Noah Kim and kateen Houser.
Yeah, I thinks something good. Like

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you said, with there are two
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last year. Obviously I've been with
know it longer than than Kyton. But

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Caten's coming along well. You know, he's a young guy. Obviously he's

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got h plenty of talent, and
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them. We do we do different
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to work different team building stuff and
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But on the football field, things
have been good. It's been fun hanging

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out with those guys, working together
with those guys, and then obviously with

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the rest of the team working and
trying to improve on the areas we need

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to improve on. And then also
you know, just having fun out there.

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Sometimes that gets lost in the whole
scheme of it. You know,

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guys get too caught up and this
or that. But ultimately you got to

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enjoy it. You know, we're
all here for so long and so enjoying

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the process, and spring it's a
great time to do that. Obviously,

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like I said, we're working to
get better, but also you know,

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these are some of the memories that
you'll hold with you for years and years

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and years, as you guys know, Yeah, Peyton, talk about like

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last spring compared to this spring.
You know, I feel like, you

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know, we came off of eleven
and two season, you know, beating

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Pittsburg, and you know that we
have the subpar year, but then this

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spring is kind of a rebuilding of
getting back on track. But talk about

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the difference between focal points from the
program of coach Tucker himself from spring the

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last spring to this spring, Like, tell us about that. Yeah,

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it's definitely been different last spring,
which if I'm sure you guys remember,

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we were low on numbers. Offensively, our offensive line was really thin and

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so we had to practice differently.
And this year, obviously we have a

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lot more guys, so it's been
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you know, in terms of numbers. But offensively we've been we've been

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rolling well and it's been good to
get those reps in. But like you

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said, obviously it was different last
year coming off in an eleven win seasons

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a lot different than coming off five
wins. But to be honest, we

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haven't talked about it much this spring. It hasn't been like, you know,

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we only we won five games last
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this, we need to do all
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our process us and we're refining that
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it was last year. We're practicing
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is still high. And last year
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and I wouldn't say that we were
complacent. It wasn't like we were

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happy with eleven wins and then just
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We just had other issues that popped
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you know, last year did not
go as we had planned or as

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we wanted. And so this year
we're just, like I said, back

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to the process and we're finding some
things. But then also the guys that

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were here, you know, you
do have that in the back of your

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mind, and you know that if
you do the same thing you did last

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year, you know you can expect
the exact same results. So we've definitely

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addressed that and I feel like we're
moving in the right direction. Yeah,

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you know, you talk about the
you know, everyone that you can talk

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to to. Last year was a
disappointing season, and we had a bunch

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of other you know, your teammates
on the show. We've even had Darien

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Harrison on the show. And a
lot of the things that I was brought

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is like that that closeness, that
culture due to the construction going on,

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because you know, one of the
biggest things, you know, in sports,

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especially football, is hanging out in
the locker room. You guys didn't

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have the opportunity to do that last
year, you know, with the construction

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and you guys are you know,
using it in shifts and everything like that.

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Do you think that contributed some that
like cohesiveness contributed some to some of

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like I know, obviously you know
the injuries and all that stuff, but

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you know that closeness of the team
contributed to some of like the disappointments of

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last season. Yeah. Absolutely,
I think you look at last year,

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there's a lot of different things that
contributed to our lack of success on the

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field, and you know, looking
at it, I definitely think that's one

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of them. And we're not here
to make excuses and I'm definitely not here

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to make excuses for last year.
But you know, if you take a

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wide view at it, and look
at where our issues could have been that

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definitely had, you know, played
a factor, and you know, being

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displaced for as long as we've been
displaced, a lot of guys have.

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we changed in our game locker room and

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so you know, we're at the
facility we practice or we lift. Obviously,

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our weight room now is in our
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our indoor smaller in terms of turf
space, so that presents a little bit

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of a challenge in some ways as
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We're getting great work in the weight
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But you know, like I said, we're we're having to travel to

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the stadium and then to the facility, which isn't far, but ultimately it

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is a difference because usually you go
get treatment and then you head in the

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locker room. You know, you
get your extra work on the field,

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then you go shower and then get
treatment, then go get food and it's

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all on the same spot, which
was always such an advantage or a nice

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thing about our old facility. And
obviously things are coming and we're excited about

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the new things that are coming and
it's going to be, you know,

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bigger and better than it was obviously. But you know, getting us back

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together in a locker room where guys
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because you know, a lot of
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locker room. And you know,
like me personally, I just keep my

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little things that I need in my
bag. And then I had to and

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from you know, a shower here
at my house, and then I had

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to practice in the morning. I
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I was racking up a few too
many parking tickets at the at the same

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crazy crazy told me you want to
have something in common there. I think

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I heard you got told too before, you know from I'm not gotten told

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yet. So I was wanted to
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to t Bridge, you know,
I mean, we know you're like the

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consummate professional guy that doesn't want to
make excuses for anything. But for those

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that are listening, not having a
convenient place to shower and then be in

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the locker room. And then you
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home, Like what's weird? About
it like you guys probably know this too,

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like I did it my era way
back when we rarely showered at home.

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We always were showering in the facility, like you know, that's where

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everybody congregates. Everybody does and it
goes home, you know, like they

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do that stuff there, not oh
man, displaced all over the place,

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you know what I mean. So
it is a little difficult. But like

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ya, I'm going to ask you
a question regarding the offensive line. A

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year ago, you didn't have many
to go through the spring, so that

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was an issue. This year seems
to be more on a defensive line.

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From an offensive line standpoint, it
looks like you have like nineteen guys that

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are in the spring right now.
How has that offensive line improved in your

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mind or not improved? Like,
tell us how you feel about the new

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players, transfers or whatever who are
playing in front of you. That's protecting

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your livelihood. Yeah, it's been
good so far. I've enjoyed playing behind

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the guys this spring, and obviously, like you said, we've got some

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new faces, whether that be a
freshman or transfers, and it's been good.

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You know, guys that are here
too are pushing the guys that played

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last year, moving some guys in
some different spots, trying a couple different

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things out, and then you know, ultimately just competing. You know,

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I think it's great for our guys
to to obviously attack and the guys that

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aren't maybe in a starting role,
I know those guys are hungry to get

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on the field. So you know, they know what's in front of them

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and they know what they need to
do, or at least I hope they

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do, and I believe they do
know what they need to do to get

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on the field, and ultimately that
comes down to performing on the field.

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So that comes in practice and in
the weight room as well. But things

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have been good. You know,
our guys have been working hard. I

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know they've. I mean, after
pretty much every workout, they're all together,

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they stay and get extra work in, and that's great because you know,

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as you guys know, the most
cohesive unit oftentimes is an offensive line,

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and those guys have to work together
and if they're not all five guys

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to get it's not going to work. So it's been great to see them

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all together getting their extra work in
and and communicating with each other. I

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think they're having fun and I think
they're making each other better for sure.

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So it's been good to see.
Yeah, and Peyton, you know,

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elephant in the room this because it's
happening across the nation is players hitting the

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transfer portal. And I know we
are heavily one of those programs that lean

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on the transfer portal bringing guys in
and with the continuity of a quarterback,

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and you're seeing new faces, you
know that have been at other programs and

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ram different systems, Like, how
has that really became a challenge or how

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have you handled that from a standpoint
of being one of the vocal leaders and

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leaders you know as a quarterback,
how have you handled the new guys that

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come in to try to get that
same culture to step in line or join

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the train going forward together versus like
you have some other guys that may come

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in and been doing some things differently. How you managed how have we managed

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that leading forward these past year and
a half two years. Yeah, it's

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definitely a challenge. Like you said, it does bring some good some good

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things as well. We have some
some transfer guys come from successful programs and

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when that happens, you I've had
talks with those guys and ask them,

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you know, what are the biggest
things that you did where you were at

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that maybe us as players are lacking
right now, and then we can address

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that. And you know, you
don't know what you don't know. So

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you know, a guy like me
or or you know Trey Mosley or Nick

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Saymax j you do playing. You
know, we we don't know any different.

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We've only been here and so we've
seen what we've seen and h so

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other guys at other places maybe doing
things a little bit differently. There's a

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lot of different things that work.
But just hearing some different ideas from those

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guys that have been successful programs,
you know, that's that's an interesting dynamic

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to it. And you hear from
them, and you know, maybe you

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try some different things here and there, but you know that's good to hear.

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But then you know, the challenging
aspect of it is you don't know

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where guy's coming from. You may
know school is coming from, but you

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have no idea what the system he's
coming from, or what you know background

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he's coming from. Some you know, some programs lift very differently. Some

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programs don't lift very much. And
you see that with some guys and I'm

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not saying that we have a lot
of guys like that at all, but

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you know, in my past three
years, you know, we've had,

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like you guys said, it's still
with transfers that have come in, and

408
00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:26.400
so you never really know what you're
getting until you meet the guy. And

409
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.400
obviously we've had some great ones.
Obviously we've had some some guys that maybe

410
00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:33.720
haven't worked out and or have moved
on. But you know, you get

411
00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:38.119
a wide variety of stuff from different
guys, and so just hearing where they're

412
00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:41.240
from and hearing what they do and
what they you know, have been successful

413
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:44.839
doing, you know, it's good
to hear. And then obviously you have

414
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:48.079
to mold that into our culture,
and I think our guys have been great

415
00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:52.200
in doing that. Our transfers that
we've gotten have really embraced our culture so

416
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:56.119
far, as far as I know, that's what I've been seeing. So

417
00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:59.799
it's been good so far. You
know, I feel good about the outside

418
00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:03.160
guys that we've gotten, and obviously
they're no longer outside guys. That's just

419
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:06.279
their past and everyone you know has
gotten here one way or the other and

420
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:11.079
now we're one team moving forward.
Yeah, So you know you're talking about

421
00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.279
those transfer guys coming in. So
everyone wants to know this question, you

422
00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:19.279
know, and you've had an opportunity
now in spring ball to see, you

423
00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:26.839
know, this person in action.
How is Nate Carter? This is uh

424
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.119
as you can tell, this is
his guy, this is his guy son,

425
00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:37.400
his son. Yeah, yeah,
that it's been awesome. He's an

426
00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:41.039
amazing guy. I've gotten to know
him a little bit and then just being

427
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:42.759
around him, you know, he's
a he's a great human being. And

428
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:45.440
so I don't know if you guys
have met him or not, but you

429
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.400
know, as soon as you shake
his hand, you'll you'll you'll definitely get

430
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.319
that that vibe from him. He's
one of those guys that just makes you

431
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:56.160
better as a person, honestly the
more you hang out with them. And

432
00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:57.960
uh, but as you guys,
I'm sure want to know as a football

433
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:02.200
player he is. He's very talented. Obviously, he's got that speed that

434
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:06.839
that people have talked about. Uh, you know, just just today in

435
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:09.200
practice or maybe it was last practice. You know, he had a nice

436
00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:14.559
burst, a nice nice jump cut
getting out of a gap and get to

437
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:16.240
where he needed to be. So
so far, so good. You know,

438
00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:19.920
I've been I've been impressed with him. I thought he's been doing a

439
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:23.200
lot of good things. Obviously,
you know, only what thirteen practice is

440
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:27.799
in, so not a huge sample
size, but definitely enough to tell her

441
00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:30.200
he's a good player. And you
know, I'm excited to be out there

442
00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:34.880
with him. Can't he step up
and block when you were in the pocket?

443
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:37.119
That's really that's really what we didn't
bring that. He Yeah, we

444
00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:39.519
got a hot route. What's up? Is he gonna get in there?

445
00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:43.440
Yeah? Yeah, he's stuck his
nose in there. On Saturday, he

446
00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:47.039
definitely did. Yeah, we had
we had a screaming Saturday and Big Jacobe

447
00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:51.480
was was rolling in there and he
got stuff right from him. So,

448
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:54.680
uh, he's definitely willing and and
he is about as strong as they come

449
00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:59.720
in the backfield. So uh,
he definitely is capable and he's willing as

450
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:01.799
well. So that's that's good for
me. I like I like seeing that.

451
00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:06.640
Yeah, that's the That's the biggest
challenge for a running back is actually

452
00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:09.519
playing without the ball in your hands, you know, because that's like reading

453
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:15.240
that defense, seeing boots blitz and
stepping up and picking and sticking your face

454
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:17.880
in there and picking up that Blitz. But Payton, let's let's go back

455
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:21.599
a little bit. All right.
You know you're a kid from Illinois.

456
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:25.000
Why why Michigan State. What was
the attraction in Michigan State for you?

457
00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:31.039
Yeah, so in eighth grade,
my dad told me right down, five

458
00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:35.400
schools that are your dream schools to
go to. And I'm like you guys

459
00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:37.200
said, I'm from Illinois. I
was never you know, I have nobody

460
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:39.880
in my family that went to Michigan
State. I'm not a Michigan guy.

461
00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:45.640
And Michigan State was on that list. That was, you know, probably

462
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:50.240
back in twenty eleven, twenty twelve, something like that, if my math

463
00:33:50.359 --> 00:34:00.319
is right, Actually that's not right, probably twenty fourteen, big program in

464
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:02.880
Illinois. Man. Yeah, I
remember watching, uh, you know,

465
00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:07.400
I remember watching Connor Cook. I
remember watching Kirk Cousins, and I remember

466
00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:09.239
watching Michigan State, and it was
always fun to watch, you know.

467
00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:14.519
I'll never forget where I was on
the you know, the game against Michigan

468
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:17.480
And in twenty fifteen, I believe
it was, you know, I was

469
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:22.800
on my couch with my grandpa and
and that was that. But and then

470
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:27.440
once I started getting recruited. I
remember coach Salem got in contact with me,

471
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.280
and the reason I wanted to come
to Michigan State was obviously they were

472
00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:32.840
they were winning, it was a
winning program. But then also coached Antonio

473
00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:36.679
before I even knew him, you
know, I had a ton of respect

474
00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:40.199
for the way that Michigan State played. I loved watching on the Spartans play

475
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:44.400
and how they played. And then
I also loved just watching coach Antonio on

476
00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:47.000
the sideline whenever the camera was on
him. He was just a guy that

477
00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:52.239
you know, you you want to
play for. And that's what I thought

478
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:53.920
from the outside. And then when
I was able to meet him and I

479
00:34:53.960 --> 00:35:00.320
was able to get up here on
campus, I mean talking with people to

480
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:04.960
my you know, my dad and
his contacts. You know, the ultimate

481
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:07.559
message was, you know, you
don't you don't pass up Michigan State.

482
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:12.440
You don't. You don't say no
to Michigan State. So I committed shortly

483
00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:15.320
after and then here we are now. So I would never change a thing.

484
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:21.119
And obviously coach Antonio is not here
anymore, but you know, coach

485
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:23.239
coach Tucker is is the same way. You know, you love to play

486
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:27.480
for him, and he's a guy
that I'm sure when you're watching on TV,

487
00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:30.159
you're probably thinking the same thing.
Obviously, I haven't watched many many

488
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:37.400
games on TV when Coach Tuts been
coaching, though, hy Peyton talk about,

489
00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:45.000
you know a standpoint of Michigan State
being what you came to be,

490
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:49.519
like being recruited, what was your
first encounter with coach d like? Talk

491
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:52.159
about talk about that, like it
could be interesting story, it could be

492
00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:55.320
funny, it could be serious,
but like, what was your first encounter

493
00:35:55.360 --> 00:36:00.440
because me and Jay, you meant
Coach d when he took over the program,

494
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:05.440
and we you know, we were
this first foundation, right we had

495
00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:09.719
we had the strict most strict coach
d ever, right he had Yeah,

496
00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:20.719
still soft guy, go ahead,
But I'm counter with with coach D'Antonio.

497
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:27.440
So my'm probably wasn't normal from the
other recruits because I was recruited late and

498
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:30.719
so I wasn't you know, my
official visit was kind of weird. It

499
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:38.440
was it was like on a Monday
night, which is obviously not normally official

500
00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:42.400
visit. I was hanging out at
the dorm and then walk home and I

501
00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:45.199
got lost on my way home and
I was so I was like touring campus

502
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:51.599
by my well, they told me
the text, Uh, they told my

503
00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:54.280
host the text a recruiting guy.
When I was ready to go or whatever.

504
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:57.840
It was pretty late. We were
watching Kirk Cousins actually on Monday night

505
00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:01.239
football, and and he didn't answer
right away or something, and I was

506
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:02.880
like, yeah, I'll be able
to find my way on It'll be no

507
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:07.599
problem. And so the catalog is
not that far and that's where I was

508
00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:10.559
staying, and I will just walk
the complete wrong way. I think my

509
00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:14.320
phone was dead or something like that, and so I literally was just wandering

510
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:17.960
campus before I found it. So
that was a whole nother story. But

511
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.679
as far as coach d goes,
I honestly don't remember the first time that

512
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:25.519
I met him, but I remember
in the recruiting process just shaking his hand

513
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:31.079
and then obviously he seems like a
real serious guy, and he's actually funny.

514
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:36.440
You know, he's a really funny
guy. He got those little side

515
00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:39.639
comments that you can't tell if he's
around, and then he'll give you that

516
00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:45.519
little smirk and it's like, oh, he's just joking. But but yeah,

517
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:46.679
you know, things were good in
the recruiting process. I remember talking

518
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:51.119
to him on the phone, mostly
honestly because I was back home playing basketball

519
00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:53.320
still, so I wasn't able to
get up get up here much. And

520
00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:57.960
then I remember committing on the phone
and talking to him in my high school

521
00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:02.239
and uh, and then that was
that. Look, Peyton, everybody knows

522
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:06.239
about your hoop skills. We've seen
that at the bowl game. I think

523
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:10.800
it was, you know, at
the at the beach in Atlanta against you

524
00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:15.159
know, Pittsburgh. You like,
want it for the team whatnot, But

525
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:19.599
like as a coach a son,
right, so you grew up in this.

526
00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:22.920
You grew up in football. You
understand the game. You know what

527
00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:29.519
it takes. And coming in as
a QB one going eleven and two,

528
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:36.679
then the next year going five and
seven, you understand, like as a

529
00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:39.480
quarterback, just like we do in
the damn locker room. Quarterbacks get off

530
00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:45.679
too much damn credit and they get
too much damn blame. So right now

531
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:52.679
you are in this position where everybody's
blaming me. Right, you know this

532
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:55.039
is not this is not new to
you. You got two players in the

533
00:38:55.039 --> 00:39:00.840
locker in your quarterback room that are
nd to try, Like, what is

534
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:06.719
it going to take for you to
get to the point mentally and physically to

535
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:08.840
be able to produce to the level
that you need to in order to win

536
00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:14.079
this job, and then produce for
Michigan State because that's utherly what everybody wants

537
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:19.760
to level that everybody expects of Michigan
State football, because that is who you

538
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:25.039
are as QB one talk about that. Yeah, like you said, you

539
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:29.840
know, coming in my first year
starting, we went eleven games. All

540
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:34.519
is good. You know, you
get that feeling of what playing in Michigan

541
00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:37.360
State is like. You get that
feeling of what playing quarterback in Michigan State

542
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:42.000
is like. And then the next
year you win five games, and you

543
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:44.800
know, you don't you don't beat
the teams that you're supposed to. Obviously

544
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:47.440
we lose some games that we weren't
supposed to lose and don't even go to

545
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.360
a bowl. And so now you
feel what it's like to play at Michigan

546
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:55.760
State and to play the place with
expectations and uh and then you're you're still

547
00:39:55.800 --> 00:40:00.760
the quarterback and so you get the
two differ frat feels of it. And

548
00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:07.280
ultimately I learned last year a lot
about how to deal with certain things.

549
00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:12.880
And I learned, you know,
that social media is not not your friend,

550
00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:16.679
like people say, you know,
just get off of it, because

551
00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:23.599
if you're in this position, it's
not going to help you because ultimately,

552
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:27.239
even the good things that you're seeing, it's not it's that's not help you

553
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:30.320
either, because it's a whole bunch
of people that that you know, truthfully,

554
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:32.719
they don't they don't know what's going
on. They're not in the room,

555
00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:35.840
they're not in the team room,
they're not in our team meetings that

556
00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:37.679
they don't know what's going on.
All you see is TV. So you

557
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:43.360
see, you know, one thing
here, one thing there, and what

558
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:45.440
it looks like is it's somebody's fault. You think it's a running back's fault

559
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:49.840
because he missed the cut, but
ultimately that guy that he was cutting off

560
00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:53.280
of was supposed to be blocked or
you know, you think that that guy

561
00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:57.480
should have filled that gap, that
linebacker, but ultimately, you know it

562
00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:00.679
wasn't him that we should have had
a guy come out you had blitzed.

563
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:04.199
You know, there's all types of
different scenarios that people that people don't know,

564
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:07.559
and so you got to learn to
block it out, and you have

565
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:10.079
to learn to listen to what you're
supposed to listen to. And so you

566
00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:15.280
know, I see last year as
a great learning experience for me. Obviously,

567
00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:17.760
you know, I wish that it
would have gone differently. I wish

568
00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:22.639
we would have won more games.
But uh, you know, I believe

569
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:24.960
strongly that down the road, I
look back on that year and be thankful

570
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:30.519
for it because of the things I
learned from this past year, you know,

571
00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:32.920
both for myself and for our team, and so, like you said,

572
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:38.960
moving forward, for me, it's
just getting back to getting back to

573
00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:43.159
work. Not that I you know, took things lightly last year all,

574
00:41:43.599 --> 00:41:45.320
you know, I didn't. I
didn't feel like I was complacent whatsoever.

575
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:50.199
I was full pedal pedaled down last
year trying to get better. And then,

576
00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:52.320
like you said, you know,
some different things happened last year that

577
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:57.320
were that were a challenge, you
know, for me personally. Like you

578
00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:00.559
guys had said earlier, you know, I battled injury for the first time.

579
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:04.440
I've never really been banged up,
and so dealing with that is not

580
00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:07.199
easy. And people also, you
know, people don't know that either.

581
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:10.000
You know, people don't know what
you're fighting through just just to get out

582
00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:15.159
to practice sometimes and just to practice
through the week and be ready for Saturday.

583
00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:19.159
And so you know, I looked
back on last year and did I

584
00:42:19.199 --> 00:42:22.400
play my best? Probably not.
But I also look back on and say,

585
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:24.599
did I did I give everything I
had? And I absolutely did.

586
00:42:24.679 --> 00:42:28.199
You know, I didn't hold anything
back. And I can look myself in

587
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:30.280
the mirror and say I gave everything
I got I had last year, and

588
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:35.239
there were a lot of different factors
that led to us ultimately only winning five

589
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:38.199
games. But you know, for
me, I can't look back and keep

590
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:42.400
talking about you know, this,
this, and that I'm not. I'm

591
00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:45.519
not you know, looking back and
saying I was I played terrible last year.

592
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:46.679
You know, I let other people
do that, But you know,

593
00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:50.360
I know what I did last year. I know what I what I battled

594
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:52.320
through, and ultimately I feel like
there are a lot of good things I

595
00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:55.480
did as well, and so I
need to look at those things and build

596
00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:00.880
on those things and then just you
know, remember who I am and what

597
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:04.760
I've done. You know, I
have a lot of confidence in myself and

598
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:09.199
you know, just playing with confidence, and I'll be doing that moving forward.

599
00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:13.920
And I have been in the spring, and you know, as a

600
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:15.719
quarterback, you had to walk out
there with a certain amount of confidence.

601
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:20.119
If you walk out there and you're
unsure about yourself, it's not going to

602
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:23.199
go well for you. And so
just remembering the things that I've you know,

603
00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:29.199
gone through in my life in all
sports and drawing from all the different

604
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:31.920
things that I've done in football,
baseball, I am basketball, and you

605
00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:36.480
know, talking with my dad kind
of recently that we kind of went through

606
00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:38.159
some stuff and you know, he
was bringing up some old stuff that I

607
00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:43.440
didn't even remember, and it was
like, yeah, you know what I

608
00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:45.320
do. I do need to you
know, I do need remember those things

609
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:47.719
because I had forgotten. You know, I get so caught up in just

610
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:52.639
this and so you remember those things
and it's like, yeah, you know

611
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:54.920
what I'm not. I'm not obviously, I'm not listening to the outside noise.

612
00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:58.679
But I need to start remembering some
of the things that I've done too,

613
00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:01.119
and uh and get back that that
mentality and that chip on my shoulder.

614
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:05.920
And That's what I'm gonna do.
Mhmm, yeah, Peyton Lea.

615
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:14.039
I think about that Wisconsin game last
season where like you you legit locked in

616
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:16.559
like it was like what we saw
the season prior to where it was.

617
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:21.559
You knew what you you had a
mission, like you knew like I had

618
00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:24.559
to put the team on my back
more so that shoulder and throw that that

619
00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:30.119
rock and that seed, and like
what what situations really get you into that

620
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:35.440
zone? Like take us through the
QB mindset of what gets you to play

621
00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:38.440
at that level you know consistently.
Is it the competition or is it like

622
00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:43.719
the player calling because you're comfortable,
you know, talk about in your mindset

623
00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:46.599
what gets you to that zone where
the game slows down for you and you

624
00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:52.760
are just picking a part of defense. Honestly, it's preparation. That's the

625
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:57.639
word that comes to mind immediately for
me as a quarterback. Obviously you're throwing

626
00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:00.639
the ball to your receivers and your
pass catches your tight ends, running backs.

627
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:07.599
Ultimately it's the receivers and so's it
starts now, that that mindset starts

628
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:09.840
now, and it's been started since
January. I remember I was talking.

629
00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:13.360
I was just talking to our receivers, you know, a week or two

630
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.000
ago about for me back in high
school, I remember, you know,

631
00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:20.840
our offense was very good my junior
senior year. We scored a lot of

632
00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:25.360
points and then we threw it around
and we stepped on the field every Friday

633
00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:29.719
night and had the mentality that that
we're not going to be stopped. You

634
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:31.079
know, you guys aren't going to
stop us, because number one, we're

635
00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:35.760
really good, but also we are
on the same page and we have a

636
00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:38.760
plan to attack you guys, and
you're not gonna stop us. And I

637
00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:43.639
remember my last high school game.
We stepped on the field against a very

638
00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:45.519
good team from the Catholic League and
it was I think the second round of

639
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:52.519
the playoffs, and they hadn't given
up seven points since week one. And

640
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:54.639
we talked all that week. We
put a couple of new things in and

641
00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:58.239
ultimately we said, they're not gonna
stop us. They're not gonna stop us

642
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:00.920
either, and we went out there. I believe we scored thirty four thirty

643
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:06.480
five points and we lost by one, unfortunately, but you know, we

644
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:07.719
went out there and then with no
team had done to when they play some

645
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:15.280
really good teams, and so it's
it's going out and knowing that you're prepared

646
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:19.199
and expecting to go win, expecting
they go put a lot of points up

647
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:21.800
on the board. And that's how
you come out there with that that swagger

648
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:27.239
and that that mentality. You know, it's almost like a mental cockiness.

649
00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:31.599
You know, obviously you're not outwardly
cocky, but it's it's such confidence that

650
00:46:31.719 --> 00:46:34.840
you feel like no one's gonna know, one can stop us. And if

651
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:37.239
you go out there and play like
that, you know that that's gonna help

652
00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:40.840
help you a lot. And ultimately
you know that ends up coming to fruition,

653
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:46.719
no doubt about it. Even so, so Peyton, you know you

654
00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:52.239
brought up a minute ago social media, right, and like you know,

655
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:57.559
I thought about that as a player
when I was in Michigan State, back

656
00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:01.280
in the Stone Ages or whatever that
us and where you are now, like

657
00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:07.599
we didn't we didn't have social media, I think otis and and uh Ju

658
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:15.320
said the book remember Hill Smith,
stay off that face like it was so

659
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:20.719
new, it was new, and
like now you're dealing with this, like

660
00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:23.719
where you got all these you know, let me just say it the way

661
00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:30.800
it is, these mother these these
these Monday morning quarterbacks. Is that a

662
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:36.519
better way to say it, the
Monday morning quarterbacks? That oh I would

663
00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:38.400
have done this. I would have
done that, you know, Like like

664
00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:44.719
you say, like just getting off
of because it's evil? Is that something

665
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:50.800
that you like you indoctrinated yourself and
the way that you present yourself weekly and

666
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:55.400
the behaviors that you exemplify for everyone, like like, I don't need to

667
00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:59.519
look at that stuff because it's not
all good, you know, and it

668
00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:05.519
helps you, Like tell me how
you deal with that stuff today. Yeah,

669
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:07.280
you know, Honestly, during the
season, I'll be completely off of

670
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:12.800
it. Unfortunately, it's a way
to make money in the off season,

671
00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:15.960
and we have people coming to talk
to us about that, and so unfortunately

672
00:48:16.039 --> 00:48:19.039
there is a part of it that
you do want to be on it a

673
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:21.559
little bit, but I try to
limit my time as much as I can.

674
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:23.400
You know, I'm not as good
about it as I wish I was.

675
00:48:23.519 --> 00:48:27.719
It's not like I'm addicted to my
phone, but you know, I

676
00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:30.880
wish I didn't have it at all, to be honest with you. But

677
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:32.519
yeah, you know, like I
said, you get on there and you

678
00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:37.280
see some stuff and then you know, our eleven win season two years ago,

679
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:39.800
there was times where I would see
people saying stuff about how I did

680
00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:42.960
this, this and this and how
great it was, and I'd be like,

681
00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:57.960
that's actually not at all what happened. Probably it's probably and then move

682
00:48:58.039 --> 00:48:59.840
the protection here, and then through
the Touch show, I was like,

683
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:02.480
actually that was just my quick reading
and I just threw it. I'll take

684
00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:08.639
you know, it's like okay.
But so even even then, I realized,

685
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:13.760
these people they don't know what they're
talking about. And even some of

686
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:19.440
the people that that that played and
and and know football, uh, even

687
00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:22.360
some of those guys will say something
that is not really what happened. And

688
00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:25.920
so even if if even those guys
who you know, there are very few

689
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:29.840
guys on TV and stuff that I
trust that I'm like, yeah, he

690
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:34.000
knows what he's talking about, like
he really can tell, and that there

691
00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:37.320
are some of the guys that are
borderlines like that's not really what happened.

692
00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:40.840
So, you know, you learned
both ways. I learned then and then

693
00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:45.800
obviously this past year you learned the
negative side of that. But in that

694
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:49.719
good year and then and then growing
up in high school, I was always

695
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:52.199
you know, you always hear people
say just you know, you tune out,

696
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:53.159
don't look at it, don't look
at it. And I was always

697
00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:55.360
saying that. I'm like, yeah, I won't, I won't do that.

698
00:49:55.760 --> 00:49:59.039
But then as soon as the bad
season comes, you know, it's

699
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:05.400
hard for twelve twelve weeks or anever
to not look at anything, and so

700
00:50:05.440 --> 00:50:07.719
it's a little bit of a process
of teaching yourself how to do that and

701
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:12.039
how to really not pay any attention
to it. And not that I was,

702
00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:15.559
like, you know, beating myself
up about it, but it's like

703
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:17.480
sometimes after you see it for a
while, sometimes it will get to you,

704
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:22.840
you know, just being real absolutely, and you know, it's a

705
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:25.480
process of learning to really, you
know, tune it out because if you

706
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:29.960
just keep seeing it, all of
a sudden, even the slightest bit of

707
00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:32.039
doubt may creep into your head and
then you know you don't want any of

708
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:37.880
that. And so just learning to
completely tune it out and even the good

709
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:39.000
things, like I said, you
got to tune that out too, and

710
00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:44.000
just be completely focused on what you
need to be. You have a mental

711
00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:46.000
coach, because I mean that's something
that's a hot topic of nowadays. Is

712
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:52.760
because it is such a now now
society and people think they're all experts.

713
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:59.960
Is there mental coaching in the position
of your caliber QB one at a Power

714
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:05.880
five university, Big ten Michigan State, Like, do you do you subscribe

715
00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:13.079
to mental coaching? I don't have, like a said mental coach. I've

716
00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:15.599
talked with our team psychiatrist a few
times. He's a great guy. I'm

717
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:19.880
sure you guys probably know him,
doctor Rosen. He's an awesome guy.

718
00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:23.840
And I've talked with some of the
foreigner players actually who did me with him

719
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:28.239
on a regular basis, just just
a couple weeks ago, and they say,

720
00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:30.280
hey, yeah, you should.
There's no reason you shouldn't be talking

721
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:32.280
to him, you know, once
every two weeks in the offseason and every

722
00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:35.480
week in the season. And I'm
like, that's a great idea. You

723
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:38.880
know, people think you go talk
to a psychiatrist or whatever because you're depressed

724
00:51:38.960 --> 00:51:43.159
or you have horrible anxiety. That
doesn't have to be the case at all,

725
00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:45.800
you know. And that's what I've
learned, is to just go in

726
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:49.719
there and just talk about whatever.
You might not even talk at all about

727
00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:52.719
anything that's going on, like deep
down in your head. You might just

728
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:54.920
go have a conversation and you're able
to say stuff to a guy like that

729
00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:59.320
that maybe you wouldn't say to just
you know, your dad, your mom,

730
00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:01.039
your coach, your teammate, you
know, you just have a conversation.

731
00:52:01.159 --> 00:52:06.360
And with our with our guy,
he's been to so many different places

732
00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:08.679
and work with so many different people
that I can I can draw stories that

733
00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:14.159
he shares with me from different situations
that he's been in and you know,

734
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:17.440
different Michigan State stories from the past. So it's been it's been really helpful

735
00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:22.440
for me and I've got a lot
of great information from him. Yeah.

736
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:27.400
Absolutely, that is something you know
that a lot of players should take advantage

737
00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:37.960
of. A couple of questions here
they go that is this a rapid fire,

738
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:44.599
like you want my rapid fire?
Now he was gonna get them the

739
00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:47.840
rapid fire questions of like his his
playlist music and yeah, yeah, So

740
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:53.360
let's start off. Is the mullet
coming back? What's coming back? If

741
00:52:53.360 --> 00:53:00.480
you guys can see, it's kind
of it's kind of growing. Last last

742
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:10.280
night last night you had some extra
spit man that I was my girlfriend.

743
00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:13.960
She she was telling me to grow
my hair out, and I'm like,

744
00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:16.039
I'm not throwing my hair out again, and so she's come on, come

745
00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:20.960
on, So I said, okay, fine, I'll do it. From

746
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:23.960
she's from Michigan, she's she she
was born in Milford, Michigan. So

747
00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:32.119
oh yeah. So so now I
realized when I've had the bullet, I've

748
00:53:32.159 --> 00:53:35.639
only we've only lost one game.
When I when I had the bullet,

749
00:53:35.679 --> 00:53:40.519
so I'm like, man, as
well, what's that can hurt? Okay?

750
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:45.559
I felt like I'm playing with some
guys that like love to take their

751
00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:55.760
helmet off and just do that.
I caught myself I did that like one

752
00:53:55.760 --> 00:53:59.719
time because it was literally like I've
gotten to the point now for the first

753
00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:01.440
time ever. It's like got in
my eye and I'm like, oh,

754
00:54:01.719 --> 00:54:05.519
like it's drooping all the way,
you know, down from here. So

755
00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:07.719
I had to like, you know, throw it back like that, and

756
00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:09.519
I was like, well, I
don't like that, Like I can't.

757
00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:19.800
I can't become one of those guys
whom the Titans a pre game meal?

758
00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:23.440
What's on the pregame meal? Yeah? Amber sets us up pretty good.

759
00:54:23.559 --> 00:54:27.599
Pregame meal for me is usually depends
what we play in the morning or night.

760
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:32.679
But steak, maybe two steaks,
mashed potatoes, big fan of mass

761
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:40.400
potatoes. Maybe some pasta and a
piece of bread. Okay, waity does

762
00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:44.639
she stop serving that mac and cheese
at Kellogg? Oh yeah, mac and

763
00:54:44.679 --> 00:54:50.320
cheese too used to. I'm a
Friday night mac and cheese. Got Friday

764
00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:54.800
night. Okay, this will have
the ranch dressing, I think so I'm

765
00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:59.679
not a big ranch guy, so
I went, Okay, that's why you're

766
00:54:59.719 --> 00:55:09.360
not that used. The mother is
be careful. I would lose my Buffalo

767
00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:12.920
card if then, Lord, I
was, you know, eating ranch out

768
00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:23.719
here card Buffalo was a Buffalo dude
exactly. Music. Do you listen to

769
00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:27.840
anything pre game or what? What
do you listen to? I do?

770
00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:31.960
I kind of have a mix,
you know, I'm mostly uh, mostly

771
00:55:32.039 --> 00:55:36.800
hip hop rap, you know.
I kind of go back and forth between

772
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:39.039
some new stuff and then some old
stuff, not like not not not anything

773
00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:47.119
in the nineties. I'm not a
nineties rap guy. Older stuff, so

774
00:55:47.159 --> 00:55:49.880
stuff that you listen to, it's
like, man, I've heard this a

775
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:55.920
million times, but it's like some
Drake, some older drake, Lil Wayne

776
00:55:55.960 --> 00:56:01.639
for sure, definitely a few from
eminemm uh so. Nothing crazy back then,

777
00:56:01.679 --> 00:56:07.599
but now I'm a big forty two
dug dug guy before uh, some

778
00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:10.199
of these guys have gotten me under, these Detroit rappers. So I started

779
00:56:12.679 --> 00:56:15.280
here in Michigan with someone. If
someone went through your playlist, you said

780
00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:19.039
a bunch of different stuff. Like
if they went through it and they heard

781
00:56:19.039 --> 00:56:29.000
a song, what song would you
be? Like Miley Cyrus, I used

782
00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:31.559
to rock. I rock with Miley
Cyrus. I'm taking ownership of all my

783
00:56:31.639 --> 00:56:35.880
music. Uh, anything that comes
on in the car when I'm on OX,

784
00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:39.559
I'm I'm like, you don't like
this? This is good? So

785
00:56:42.079 --> 00:56:49.400
I don't know. I mean I
listened to them. I listened to classic

786
00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:54.039
rock eighties, not a ton of
classic rock. Sure. Uh, it

787
00:56:54.119 --> 00:56:57.400
just depends on what I'm doing.
If I'm driving in my car at night.

788
00:56:57.760 --> 00:57:00.599
Uh, in the summer, maybe
I'll turn some country. I listened

789
00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:02.239
to country summer, only for countries. I can't be in the driving through

790
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:08.800
the snow and listen to the country. That's no good you. Country rock

791
00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:13.400
is to So I'm starting to get
into that country mode now now that it's

792
00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:16.360
getting nice out, get some country
going. But then also something like have

793
00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:20.760
you heard have you heard you sing
a country song? Have you heard what?

794
00:57:21.559 --> 00:57:23.480
I have not heard that yet.
I'm a country guys. You know

795
00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:36.840
some confused records there is there but
all right, favorite off field other than

796
00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:40.760
football, favorite off field activity gol. I just got that of course today

797
00:57:40.760 --> 00:57:45.440
Actually the first time this season I
went to forest. It was just the

798
00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:49.800
Michigan State course. From now.
We started off nice and light. How

799
00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:51.920
was it. How was it?
Is it a good shape for off the

800
00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:55.320
spring? Like it's not. There
were a couple of new new water water

801
00:57:55.360 --> 00:57:59.079
hazards out there that I think won't
be there in like a week. But

802
00:57:59.280 --> 00:58:07.519
you know, of course it was
nice. Yeah. Why it's always quarterbacks

803
00:58:07.559 --> 00:58:15.079
and kickers that can golf? Why
because I'll tell you why. Actually there

804
00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:17.000
is actually, like somebody, I
don't know if somebody studied this or just

805
00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:22.280
somebody said this, but quarterbacks and
kickers have a repeated motion in their game.

806
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:27.280
So like quarterbacks throwings a repeating motion. Obviously, kicking is extremely repeated,

807
00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:30.679
and so quarterbacks and kickers are good
at repeating motions, I guess because

808
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:32.239
a receiver does a whole bunch of
different things. I'm not saying the quarterback

809
00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:37.840
is the same thing every time.
But golf is I guess, a repeated

810
00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:43.320
movement. And so that's why kickers
and quarterbacks and kickers and quarterbacks aren't the

811
00:58:43.360 --> 00:58:45.719
ones in the training room too too
much, at least at least we hope

812
00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:51.159
not. Yeah, and also too
but quarterbacks are good in my book,

813
00:58:51.199 --> 00:58:55.199
they you know, you guys,
I considered quarterbacks athletes. Kickers I don't

814
00:58:55.599 --> 00:59:06.000
I consider them well I think you
got scar because our kickers would go and

815
00:59:06.119 --> 00:59:13.039
gamble or play cards during One of
them took one to pay true story.

816
00:59:13.239 --> 00:59:15.000
One of the kickers, the Kick, and the old Specialist unit, the

817
00:59:15.079 --> 00:59:20.079
long Snapper, Hunter Kicker, all
those guys during two days hot as hell.

818
00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:22.199
You sweat and you look at them. You're tossing the button. They

819
00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:24.599
took the cart, you know,
like the old training cart there with the

820
00:59:24.679 --> 00:59:28.800
long bed they all hopped on.
It took that to the Meridian mall.

821
00:59:29.840 --> 00:59:31.400
No way, yes, I mean
that's not close. That's not even that

822
00:59:32.760 --> 00:59:45.000
true story otis Wow, damn,
that's I wouldn't know because that David rainers

823
00:59:45.039 --> 00:59:46.679
do during practice. So I mean, for I know, they could be

824
00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:52.960
taking trips India right now. Okay
after big win. You know, East

825
00:59:52.039 --> 01:00:00.400
Lanton is a great spot. Where's
the watering hole? Man? Don't have

826
01:00:00.519 --> 01:00:04.159
like a go to spot. I
will say, I kind of I kind

827
01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:08.920
of float around a little bit to
a few different ones, you know.

828
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:16.000
J He just wants you to say
his favorite spot, That's what I mean.

829
01:00:16.039 --> 01:00:20.039
I don't know. I've been.
I've been just about everywhere, except

830
01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:23.360
I've only been to a couple of
them, like once. I don't I

831
01:00:23.360 --> 01:00:28.320
haven't been to. What's the main
one around the corner right by the hotel.

832
01:00:29.559 --> 01:00:30.440
You know what I'm saying, aout
right right opposite of the Marrion.

833
01:00:31.639 --> 01:00:40.280
It's a cool place. So people
place. Yeah going to Thursday, you

834
01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:53.039
know, Yeah, says Rick,
I don't know about Rix. J will

835
01:00:53.119 --> 01:01:04.400
show you. Lew and Harry's.
He's lo and Harry's. That's that's one

836
01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:07.239
of my that's one of my main
spots to go to with the guys.

837
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:10.039
Sometimes depends how it depends the night. All right, So okay, after

838
01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:16.440
that out, what's the what's the
spot to eat? Oh? God?

839
01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:22.400
Well back to so now let's let's
bring you know, Jaden back back when

840
01:01:22.440 --> 01:01:24.800
he was here. And then our
friend Greg knew so he plays for the

841
01:01:24.840 --> 01:01:28.559
Browns, Now he would he would
come up sometimes and he found this spot

842
01:01:28.599 --> 01:01:32.239
called Deep Do that I never even
heard of. Yeah. It was like

843
01:01:32.719 --> 01:01:38.360
it was late and we got and
nobody's open except these guys somehow, and

844
01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:42.719
so they like door dashed them in
and so it just became like a tradition

845
01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:46.440
that like we get deep all the
time if it's ever late, and so

846
01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:49.400
that's kind of our thing. But
other than that, honestly, I don't

847
01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:52.119
even know. Sometimes I'll grab something
just random out of the pantry, toss

848
01:01:52.119 --> 01:02:00.360
it down before I go to sleep, stands and said it was So that's

849
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:06.519
why for you, Peyton, appreciate
you. Hey Peyton, I think people

850
01:02:06.559 --> 01:02:07.840
have asked us, and you know, I know we've held you long,

851
01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:13.960
get long, But you know,
what are some kind of breakout stars on

852
01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:16.400
the squad that we should be looking
out for? You know, we'll be

853
01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:21.400
at practice Thursday morning to get a
little feel as we get ready for the

854
01:02:21.400 --> 01:02:23.800
spring game and call the you know, the spring practice. But like what,

855
01:02:24.239 --> 01:02:29.480
uh tell us who we should be
looking at or who has rose to

856
01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:32.159
the occasion of like, we have
some studs leave this season, but like

857
01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:37.199
who's the next man up and who
we should be thinking about looking at other

858
01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:45.280
than Carter obviously. Yeah, so
honestly, I would have to think a

859
01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:47.440
little bit. Yeah, you know, I don't want to miss anybody,

860
01:02:49.119 --> 01:02:51.519
But like you guys said, you
know, Nate Carter is a guy who's

861
01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:54.880
who's been doing good thing. Excuse
me, We we also have some other

862
01:02:54.920 --> 01:03:01.280
backs that are really really showing some
good signs. But often I know everybody

863
01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:05.320
knows him and everything, but but
Kean Coleman. Man, he's been working

864
01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:08.400
and it's been really fun to work
with him this offseason and him not playing

865
01:03:08.440 --> 01:03:14.880
basketball has been great for me as
much as I enjoy watching him play basketball,

866
01:03:14.880 --> 01:03:17.599
because man, is he can get
up. Uh, but man,

867
01:03:17.639 --> 01:03:21.920
he's he's worked his butt off and
it's been really fun getting to work with

868
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:24.480
him, and he has taken a
step in the right direction, and you

869
01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:28.280
know it's gonna be fun. He's
gonna be He's gonna be a damn good

870
01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:31.559
player when the Fall rolls around.
Defensively, kind of the same thing.

871
01:03:31.920 --> 01:03:35.920
I hate to be boring, guys, but Cal Holliday is Cale Holiday.

872
01:03:36.320 --> 01:03:39.639
You guys have seen him make play
after play. Alchemist. Man, he's

873
01:03:39.639 --> 01:03:45.719
a chemist, right, well,
we call the body he's collecting bodies.

874
01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:51.440
Yeah, and uh, Jakobe has
been doing well defensive line, guys,

875
01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:53.679
It's been a little bit of rotation, but things are going well. And

876
01:03:53.719 --> 01:03:59.400
then in corner wise, Dylan Tatum
has been showing some good signs. And

877
01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:02.920
then also Caleb Coley's been doing some
good things. So excited to keep competing

878
01:04:02.920 --> 01:04:05.519
against those guys. And you know, I'll let you guys knowing the Fall

879
01:04:05.559 --> 01:04:10.239
too. About who's been sticking out
in the summer. We've got to get

880
01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:13.960
a look, you know, like
a constant, like you know, segment

881
01:04:14.119 --> 01:04:16.599
for Peyton to come on, you
know, to talk about what the hell

882
01:04:16.679 --> 01:04:21.079
is going on, because that's all
everybody wants to know, what's going on.

883
01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:28.719
Peyton, Man, phenomenal job today. Thank you for what you done

884
01:04:28.800 --> 01:04:30.400
today. I mean, look,
man, I know this is like a

885
01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:35.159
hot scene. People think that all, but you handled it with grace.

886
01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:40.239
Thank you, well, Thank you
guys. It's fun fun talking with you

887
01:04:40.280 --> 01:04:43.519
guys. And you know, if
you ever guys or if you guys ever

888
01:04:43.559 --> 01:04:45.800
need just someone random slip in,
I'll be your guy. You know,

889
01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:49.800
it's fun hanging out with you guys. So you guys, you got a

890
01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:59.679
number you gotta. We'll see you
Thursday morning. Sounds good. I appreciate

891
01:04:59.760 --> 01:05:05.480
you. Hey, Peyton Thorn Man, Hey, listen, but I think

892
01:05:05.480 --> 01:05:10.599
it was candid and talking about like
what the hell is going on? Man?

893
01:05:10.639 --> 01:05:17.480
It's tough mentally. What is a
tougher position than QB one there is?

894
01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:27.199
Right? You see why? Right? You know that's crazy. I

895
01:05:27.199 --> 01:05:31.119
think I think it's like it shows
the human element of these We're still there's

896
01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:38.800
still players, still human beings right, and there were judged on one Saturday,

897
01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:43.719
Like everything that you put into it, we're judged on that one Saturday.

898
01:05:43.800 --> 01:05:46.119
So I remember having a slump when
Coach DK my first half of the

899
01:05:46.159 --> 01:05:49.440
junior year. Man, it was
it was a struggle. It was like

900
01:05:49.719 --> 01:05:55.199
trying to get out the thick of
just inside your mind, right, the

901
01:05:55.239 --> 01:05:59.119
battle of the mind, and that's
where it begins to where you know I

902
01:05:59.159 --> 01:06:03.079
was gonna bring it up. Like
Coach Barnett really helped me mentally turn my

903
01:06:03.239 --> 01:06:09.719
focus to just speaking life and speaking
like positivity and like who I was and

904
01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:12.920
who I knew I could be.
He would tell me every day and also

905
01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:15.599
before every game, you're the best
damn safety in the nation. And at

906
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:18.719
that time I did not believe that, right, And so you start to

907
01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:23.280
believe it and you just start to
start playing and things start clicking, and

908
01:06:23.320 --> 01:06:25.760
you just need that one play,
man, that just like, oh,

909
01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:28.480
that's the that's the old, oldest, that's that's what I'm used to,

910
01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:31.320
and you hold on to that and
you just play free. And that's one

911
01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:36.480
thing that people don't see, man, They just see the journey of you

912
01:06:36.519 --> 01:06:42.920
know, getting over having am nesia
of a bad play or interception or you

913
01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:45.519
know, mistackle or giving up a
touchdown. And it's just being able to

914
01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:49.960
support these guys through the pits and
then through the highs. And Coach D

915
01:06:50.360 --> 01:06:55.320
and Jay you can attest to this
one. Coach D was always real with

916
01:06:55.440 --> 01:06:59.280
us when he was like listen,
yeah, you guys winning, it was

917
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:04.320
like be prepared for them to drop
quick like they celebrating you. Now.

918
01:07:04.639 --> 01:07:08.840
He used to be like, they
will drop you like a bad happy quick.

919
01:07:08.960 --> 01:07:11.440
And so that's where you just got
to know, like, man,

920
01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:14.599
it is what it is. Those
those guys have been where we've been at

921
01:07:14.840 --> 01:07:17.360
or haven't been in the weight room
or the film room. Just play your

922
01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:20.800
game, man. And so one
I got my full support and just making

923
01:07:20.840 --> 01:07:27.119
sure he's healthy and mentally but also
physically. Yeah, before we take out

924
01:07:27.159 --> 01:07:30.239
strugg there's one thing I want to
and that's why I love doing this show

925
01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:32.639
and I love, you know,
doing the show with you guys. I

926
01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:34.800
think, you know, like we
can say it all the time. I

927
01:07:34.840 --> 01:07:39.719
think this show is the most authentic
podcast out there. You know, there's

928
01:07:39.800 --> 01:07:44.320
other podcasts that you don't do,
you know, MSLS, MSU centric and

929
01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:47.480
everything like that, But I feel
guys can come on here and be themselves.

930
01:07:47.480 --> 01:07:51.239
I feel guys can come on here
and you know, feel comfortable and

931
01:07:51.239 --> 01:07:55.440
loose. We're gonna ask them tough
questions, yes, but we're not gonna

932
01:07:55.480 --> 01:07:58.599
sit there and just give you cookie
cutter stuff. You know, that'll be

933
01:07:58.639 --> 01:08:01.280
disrespectful for the people that sitting in
and tuning in. So that's why I

934
01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:04.519
love doing this show. And that's
why you know, I love having these

935
01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:09.360
guys come on because it shows,
you know, they're more than a number

936
01:08:09.400 --> 01:08:12.239
running on the field. That say
that a lot, and it gives it

937
01:08:12.280 --> 01:08:15.760
gives our audience a peek into you
know, who they are as people.

938
01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:20.000
And I don't think there's any other
show that allows the athlete to come on

939
01:08:20.159 --> 01:08:24.880
and be themselves, talk about where
they like to go to have a drink,

940
01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:27.399
you know, talk about what type
of food, like, what music

941
01:08:27.479 --> 01:08:30.399
they're like. Everyone wants to talk
x'es and o's and everything like that.

942
01:08:30.640 --> 01:08:32.720
We do as well, don't get
us wrong, but we also want to

943
01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:36.880
elevate these guys and give them a
platform to show themselves, you know,

944
01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:45.720
who they are to the Spartan nation. I love it. That's a drop

945
01:08:49.359 --> 01:08:54.760
absolutely, and that was great.
You know, you look guys, thank

946
01:08:54.840 --> 01:09:00.640
you located, she said, there
was a question, hated, where's it

947
01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:04.199
located? Pull up? Pull up
the pull up. The flyer has the

948
01:09:04.279 --> 01:09:11.640
addresses on Albert Street. You look
at their downtown East Lanton. You can't

949
01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:15.600
miss it. Across from Jolly Pumpkin
next to the Hotcat. It's right there.

950
01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:20.319
Fieldhouse two on three Ann Street,
East Lance in Michigan. We put

951
01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:24.680
it in there. But we'll be
there live Thursday, so you'll see your

952
01:09:24.720 --> 01:09:29.439
subscribe. Yeah, subscribe and hit
the light button. Damn light button.

953
01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:41.119
Tell him you gotta tell him,
come on in subscribe, hit the like

954
01:09:41.159 --> 01:09:45.079
button. Do all those things come
hang out with us. We'll have a

955
01:09:45.119 --> 01:09:48.159
good time. Look, thank you, shoot you. That was great.

956
01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:58.439
Otis oders do this always great always
man, you know, like look it

957
01:09:58.600 --> 01:10:03.520
really special things to Peyton Thorn.
That was that was incredible to hear from

958
01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:10.720
his voice. And he gets you
know, he knows, he already knows.

959
01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:17.119
So give a break this ship.
It's not easy love everybody. Look

960
01:10:17.159 --> 01:10:23.720
look, look guys, anything else, No, I think this is great.

961
01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:27.960
Man. We're looking forward to uh
breaking some bread and you know,

962
01:10:28.239 --> 01:10:31.159
having a good time at field House
on Thursday. And we got other events

963
01:10:31.199 --> 01:10:34.800
so if you're in town, support
as much as you can for other sports

964
01:10:34.840 --> 01:10:40.479
too. That's happening. We'm looking
forward to uh going to the fieldhouse man

965
01:10:40.520 --> 01:10:45.239
for sure. It's gonna be fun. Everybody looks for Oldis Wiley, Ju

966
01:10:45.279 --> 01:10:49.039
Colcher. I'm Jason Strayhorn. This
is Sparta. Have a good night,

967
01:10:49.079 --> 01:11:04.560
God bless and go great, Go
White. This is Sparta MSU as a

968
01:11:04.560 --> 01:11:10.399
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969
01:11:10.439 --> 01:11:15.640
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970
01:11:15.720 --> 01:11:21.920
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971
01:11:21.960 --> 01:11:27.560
support is provided by Good Fruit Video. Be sure to follow our hosts Jason

972
01:11:27.560 --> 01:11:31.640
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Wiley on social media to stay up to

973
01:11:31.680 --> 01:11:36.039
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974
01:11:36.119 --> 01:11:41.199
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975
01:11:41.199 --> 01:11:43.680
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